Nvidia has just released a new video driver version ' GeForce 306.97 and what is interesting about this release is that it is also Windows 8 WHQL-certified driver, it will of course also work for Windows 7 and Vista users. The new Windows 8 OS launches later this month on October 26th, so it is almost here and while waiting to see how will Windows 8 influence stereo 3D with its native stereoscopic 3D support we can take a look at what these new drivers bring for stereoscopic 3D gamers using 3D Vision. Aside from official support for the just launched GeForce GTX 650 Ti Kepler GPU and the WHQL status the new driver brings mostly updates for 3D Vision profiles.

The most notable thing here is the Excellent rating that the upcoming Doom 3: BFG Edition has received, especially considering the fact that the game should be using an OpenGL-based game engineā?¦ and it would be playable on 3D Vision (guess how). There are a few more days until the official release of Doom 3: BFG Edition, it is expected on October 16th in North America and in Europe on October 19th.

Doom 3: BFG Edition is the first game announced to come with support for the Oculus Rift 3D VR headset, the first development kits of which are expected to start shipping some time in November/December. On a side note I just got a request to enter my shipping address for the early DIY Dev kits of the Rift scheduled to be sent to backers of the Kickstarter project sometime in November, so apparently things at Oculus are progressing well.